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big country wrote:
Fred, which camera interest you more....1dx or 5d iii?

Personally I like the 5D Mark II files but would like to see improvements in the shadow quality. (no banding, less noise)
I'm hoping that the Mark III addressed these issues. I'm getting a production model to test along with the Nikon D800. I don't need FPS but if I did, I would look no further than the 1DX.

Canon is either smart and greedy because enough of us are willing to pay the price to sellout the first batch
or
Canon is dumb and poorly judged the demand at the higher prices, pissing off too many potential buyers and will have to lower their prices sooner than later.

It just seems to me that Nikon has used the smarter strategy in this round, but only time will tell.
Competition is good, but only if the players are willing to play the game.